Only If You Knew

Golden lids slid closed, covering emerald eyes as she continued to whine the pathetic sound the first real sense of the hopelessness that had been battering at her since the day her family had disappeared. She had endured threats and guilt and going against her own morality for them, just so she wouldn’t need to be separated from her mother and brother… and it had happened anyways.

She had always known the world to be a cruel place. It only took a look at her father to know there were darker forces at work against them… but she had always assumed that things would work themselves out. They always had hadn’t they? Her father returned on occasion and her mother had even brought new life into the world, a new sister for Freya to look out for…

But that was all taken from her and she wasn’t sure quite where she was going… or even who she was without them.

These thoughts were interrupted by a soft voice. Slowly she opened her eyes and peered up at the wolf she had passed only moments earlier. He was sitting so politely, tail tucked against his paws… Just as Maija’s always had; and his words were so kind… She fought against the liquid creeping at the corner of her eyes and… it spilled over. “I can’t-“ She began, struggling to form words. “I can’t- find them…” Freya sobbed into the ground, tiny form shaking as she finally allowed herself to cry; here in front of a stranger.